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I am having my surgery in my home state (700 miles away).

My question is, I'm having my surgery on the 20th of Jan. I'm told 2 nights in hospital barring any complications. How long do you think I need to stay close to the facility? I planned on staying 2 more nights by the facility after the 2 in the hospital. I want to travel to my relatives house 90 miles away to recuperate for 4 more nights before returning for a follow-up visit and then returning home. Does it seem feasible that I can stay 1.5 hours away from the facility 4 days after my surgery?

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They do a leak test before you leave the hospital so there should be no reason that you cant go that far away. But if something should happen (very very unlikely0 you can just go to the nearest ER.

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I really don't see the need to spend extra money at a nearby hotel. You will likely have a leak test before leaving the Hospital. After that you should be free to go home really. Just be very careful when swallowing.

I personally would travel that 90 miles to your relatives house to rest for a few more days before traveling the long trek home. Nothing wrong with that. Especially since they're probably already expecting you.

All the best!

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I am having my surgery in my home state (700 miles away).

My question is, I'm having my surgery on the 20th of Jan. I'm told 2 nights in hospital barring any complications. How long do you think I need to stay close to the facility? I planned on staying 2 more nights by the facility after the 2 in the hospital. I want to travel to my relatives house 90 miles away to recuperate for 4 more nights before returning for a follow-up visit and then returning home. Does it seem feasible that I can stay 1.5 hours away from the facility 4 days after my surgery?

You're doing almost exactly what I'm doing. I traveled 1000 miles from where I currently live to have surgery in my home state of Texas. I had surgery in Dallas first thing in the morning, stayed all that day, over night and left the following day about 3 PM. I left Dallas and went 2 hours to my dad's house in East Texas. This is where our story changes a little. I stayed at his house for four days and then went for my one week follow up visit. Dr. Davidson requires a two week follow up as well, so we rented a beach house in Galveston. After my one week visit, we drove from Dallas to Galveston. It was a six hour drive, but we stopped every hour so I could get out and walk....that is important because of blood clots and sitting. We went back for my two week visit, and flew home three days later. I felt fine, never had any problems. I had the "ok" just so I stopped every hour and got out to walk around the car and when I flew home I had to get up every hour and walk down the isle as well.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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